‘Hamilton Helps Ukraine’ event draws parallels between Holodomor genocide and Putin’s war
Global News
An event in support of Ukraine held in Hamilton featured the screening of a documentary about the Holodomor, a genocide that killed millions of Ukrainians between 1932 and 1933.
On Thursday evening, more than 200 people gathered at The Westdale theatre for the “Hamilton Helps Ukraine” event, a fundraiser supporting the Canada-Ukraine Foundation and its humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Presented by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Hamilton, the fundraiser featured a documentary called “Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story,” about a young journalist from Toronto who risked her life to expose the Ukrainian Holomodor genocide in the 1930s at the hands of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin’s communist regime.
The heartbreaking and eye-opening documentary was produced by the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Holodomor National Awareness Tour, which aims to bring awareness of the Holodomor genocide to tens of thousands of Canadians.
The Holodomor was a famine genocide that killed millions of people in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933.
Following the screening of the documentary, there was open dialogue about the similarities between the Holodomor under Stalin and the current war in Ukraine under Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mary Holadyk, vice president of the Ukrainian-Canadian Congress of Hamilton, says the event was not only to raise money for humanitarian aid but to come together as a community ahead of the arrival of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
“It’s support for the cause, for Ukraine and for the community as well, because we now have immigrants and newcomers to Hamilton,” Holadyk says, “this is important for them too, because they see the city is welcoming, the city is trying.”
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